Bad beat/Moan/Venting Thread - BBV Archive 1

[Teddie]

amazing what playing against Higgins can do for you. I'm now a converted Judd fan. Hope the kid pushes on from here. A huge talent.

[Sirtoyou]

Look mate, you are planning to fk off to Dublin this weekend, maybe Vegas in June and Killarney end of September. The least you can do is give me the telly remote!

Anyway, there are 3 other telly's to watch so shut up of GTFO

Is our investment based on the Wimmins consent?

[Zod]

No. Maybe he should go for a drink with Michelle Smith and have a chat about how they've been unfairly victimised.

not similar. Michelle smith had a tracable change in performance in line with her hew trainer, who had previous convictions for drug use, at a stage in her life when she should be reducing in performance, in addition to some questionable behaviour in relation to drugs testing teams.

Higgins was at the end of a News International sting, and when it comes to truthful reporting the last people I believe are News International.

[The C Kid]

People who think Higgins was/is innocent are the same as people who think Barca don't cheat, and Lance Armstrong was clean.

[Flushdraw]

Is our investment based on the Wimmins consent?

Consent given

[Zod]

People who think Higgins was/is innocent are the same as people who think Barca don't cheat, and Lance Armstrong was clean.

I'm not saying he's innocent, but having News international, for me, throws significant doubt in my mind.

Barca, like every football team, cheat.

Lance Armstrong, like every cyclist in the last 30 years, has probably been involved in performance enhancing drugs.

[Angry-Ball]

People who think Higgins was/is innocent are the same as people who think osama bin laden is dead, and Lance Armstrong was clean.

[dannydiamond]

I agree entirely with what the C kid said.

FYP.

[tylerdurden94]

Not the strongest really, that Shirley is the worst character by far in the show I actually have no idea what she brings to it. The fake re-cap show had some funny bits. The overall problem I see is that there is no storyline in the show to build on week to week so sometimes its brilliant others its meh.

Glad to see fiddle girl is still in Treme

Yeah its her stupid voice that gets to me I thought Chang was brilliant in the last 2 episodes, that re-cap episode had something like 70 new shots in it.

She is pretty wicked in Treme for sure

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T9Nw_5hfA4&feature=related[/ame]

[Lao Lao]

SHD - I think I know the answer to your problem. Stop taking pieces from small farm animals and trying to put them into light fixtures...

Ok, this is really bizarre.
Cleaned my computer desk and the cables belows it (dusty), moved the lamp that is on my desk carefully onto the floor while cleaning....

Get everything cleaned, switch on lamp, no dice. (fuck you lamp), grab bulb from identical lamb on the other side of the room to see if the bulb went, no dice.

Feel pissed off. Go to turn on other lamp, no dice.
Test it with bulb from the remaining (but different) working lamp, no dice.

So two lamps that are a set (they were here when I moved in), that have never given any trouble, that are on opposite sides of the room - both give up the ghost at the same time.

Consider me utterly flummoxed.

me =

[AndyFatBastard]

People who think Higgins was/is innocent are the same as people who think Barca don't cheat, and Lance Armstrong was clean.

See Zod's post. Barca are clearly displayed cheating in front of us. Armstrong could not possibly have done what he did and been both clean and human at the same time (although I'm willing to believe that he's currently Mecha-Armstrong).

There is absolutely no evidence that Higgins threw a single frame or accepted any payments from dodgy characters. His story adds up, and although he was incredibly stupid to even show up to that meeting, we have no proof that he did anything untoward other than nod and smile as a dodgy cunt asked him to rig the odd frame, and then ran like fuck.

[Teddie]

not similar. Michelle smith had a tracable change in performance in line with her hew trainer, who had previous convictions for drug use, at a stage in her life when she should be reducing in performance, in addition to some questionable behaviour in relation to drugs testing teams.

Higgins was at the end of a News International sting, and when it comes to truthful reporting the last people I believe are News International.

It's pretty clear what happened. Higgins was asked to rig games, and this is where it becomes very obvious imo that Higgins should have been banned from the sport. Higgins and Mooney are player and manager for a long time, both helped set up the players association so I'd hazard a guess both have a good professional and probably personal relationship. Now we have a manager who is clearly bent and was rightfully banned. Yet we are expected to believe that despite these two guys knowing each very well and for a good number of years it just so happened that first and only time Higgins has been offereda bribe just happened to be the one time it was a newspaper sting? Roflcopters tbh.

Put yourself in Mooneys position, if you had no idea Higgins was interested in a bribe(which in itself is pretty laughable when they both know each other so well) would the first you bring it up be with some randomer in the Ukraine? Hardly. Sounds like career suicide from Mooneys point of view. The relaxed nature of Higgins in the video makes it pretty obvious that this wasn't the first time this happened, and the fact Mooney was comfortable involving Higgins in the deal really makes it so unlikely that this really was the first time it ever happened and Higgins was in fear of his life so went along with it. I really have no idea how people can think Higgins isn't bent as fuck.

[The C Kid]

I'm not saying he's innocent, but having News international, for me, throws significant doubt in my mind.

Barca, like every football team, cheat.

Lance Armstrong, like every cyclist in the last 30 years, has probably been involved in performance enhancing drugs.

Dude was rumoured to be dodgy a long time before the News of The World "sting". There was a premier league game a couple of years before where it was incredibly bizarre. There was a huge thread on the Betfair forum at the time about it, that was an incredible read, especially after the NOTW story came out, where 5 or 6 big known traders all at one point questioned was Higgins throwing this. These guys watch frame after frame after frame, and would be far better positioned to question strange betting patterns and dodgy shots. It wasn't a complete surprise when the stories came out.

[SatNav]

good night !!!! yawn, back to normal in the morning !

[Lord Sir Banter]

The lamp fiasco reminded me of an interesting documentary I watched a couple of months ago about planned obsolescence (products designed with built in FAIL).

It seems likely that this is why the lamps may simultaneously have met their maker tonight (and come to think of it, I've bought a number of other lamps, typically in pairs, sometimes used by different people and all have died in short order).

Here is the documentary, it's worth watching:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HnW6Mm5sUI[/ame]

Cliffs from memory on the documentary:

• Lightbulbs have about an 1000 hour shelf life by design, this is an industry agreed standard.
• Printers (can) have a chip in them that tells them to stop working after 'x' number of page are printed (and in the documentary, the guy finds a fix for his that resets this).

It's funny that the bulb Edison made last 1500 hours, which is longer than the average shelf life of today's bulbs.
Here is a link to the world's oldest working lightbulb (featured in the documentary), it has been burning for 110 years.


Anyhow, a friend linked to the documentary on facebook a whle ago (it had been shown on TG4), and here is the post I made at the time...

I was in my granny's house recently and was bemused to see that she still has the fridge that I remember from my childhood.
She told me that prior to him passing away (11 years ago), my Grandad insisted (despite him being notoriously frugal) that she go and "Buy a feckin' new one."
She replied "Ahh, sure I'll wait till this one goes" - it still hasn't.
It's older than I am (so it's 30 years or more). I must ask about the bulb!

Incidentally, my current crop of socks have begun to fail miserably over recent weeks.
To my continued bewilderment, holes have developed in over half of them, a problem I've never encountered with such frequency before.
I think the difference is that when I bought the current batch, I threw out all the existing socks I had at that time.
The current batch have now obviously reached their planned obsolescence. Of course some will have logged more hours than others which probably explains why a few remain intact.

Today I bought new socks in Dunnes so I guess now would be the perfect time to track and log all the lifetime hours of each and every sock to see if they all have the same fail point and what that is. (I'm roughly guesstimating 2,000 hours).

It could be my contribution to mankind.
Wonder can I get funding...

P.S: A few months ago, most of the bulbs in my apartment started to go simultaneously in spite of the fact that some were in use far less frequently than others.
This leads me to conclude that they may be able to communicate with one another.
I'm unsure as to whether it was an act of unity that led them all to go at the same time or whether one went first which gave rise to a spate of copycats. One light bulb which I thought had blown was on closer inspection actually just a little lose - so I guess that was just a gesture.

Perceived obsolescence is pretty messed up too.



Now on an entirely different subject, here are some more pictures of that Brazilian ref, Ana Paula Oliveira:

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[AndyFatBastard]

^^^ Did he just claim that there's a chip in socks that causes them to become frayed?

[Sirtoyou]

Consent given

Should be a new key point in the % charter imo.

Will the wife allow you to play?What is her current state of mind?
I know it would be the key question in any charter I was involved in.
I certainly wouldn't invest in MSN's hubby any time around the 28th of the month or ten days prior.

[CHDad]

Ok, this is really bizarre.
Cleaned my computer desk and the cables belows it (dusty), moved the lamp that is on my desk carefully onto the floor while cleaning....

Get everything cleaned, switch on lamp, no dice. (fuck you lamp), grab bulb from identical lamb on the other side of the room to see if the bulb went, no dice.

Feel pissed off. Go to turn on other lamp, no dice.
Test it with bulb from the remaining (but different) working lamp, no dice.

So two lamps that are a set (they were here when I moved in), that have never given any trouble, that are on opposite sides of the room - both give up the ghost at the same time.

Consider me utterly flummoxed.

me =

You have ghosts imo

[ArmaniJeans]

SHD, I think that kid you were stalking in Greystones the other day has special powers.

[ComradeCollie]

Hi All,

Havn't been on in a while... hope ye are all winning!

Anyway decided to donk off some money in a donkament on stars and went to deposit to neteller using my AIB maestro card and got an instant message saying that due to the high volume of transactions to and from gaming sites I could no longer use my card to deposit on neteller..

I tried phoning neteller and no avail.. I have mailed them but that could take a week/month! So phoned AIB 24 hour bank and they know nothing about it..

The last time I used my card was nearly a year ago to make a deposit and I had one withdrawal since then...

anyone know anything about it.. is it a new policy or something?

I'd imagine they've been under some pressure (volume wise) since Black Friday http://www.pokernews.com/news/2011/0...iday-10223.htm I know it took 2 weeks for a small withdrawal from FT to neteller for myself, and not even the hint of an apology or explanation for the delay. Surprised if there's any real problems at netellers end, though maestro cards were always a bit niche.

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[Lord Sir Banter]

^^^ Did he just claim that there's a chip in socks that causes them to become frayed?

I wish, lol.
Don't need a chip to have planned obsolescence built in.

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[Zod]

Dude was rumoured to be dodgy a long time before the News of The World "sting". There was a premier league game a couple of years before where it was incredibly bizarre. There was a huge thread on the Betfair forum at the time about it, that was an incredible read, especially after the NOTW story came out, where 5 or 6 big known traders all at one point questioned was Higgins throwing this. These guys watch frame after frame after frame, and would be far better positioned to question strange betting patterns and dodgy shots. It wasn't a complete surprise when the stories came out.

his "rumoured to be dodgy" was from several traders on the betfair forum?

[Macspower]

Now on an entirely different subject, here are some more pictures of that Brazilian ref, Ana Paula Oliveira:

Not Brazilian IMO

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[Bubbleking]

11 hours until new Black ops maps are out

[Sledgejammer]

Wasn't there also some chip put in IBM printers to make them work at a lower quality? Think they built the exact same high-end and low-end printers, but then put a chip in the low-end printers that stopped them working as well as the high-end ones.

/ could have been Naomi Klein (No Logo) who said that

That's quite standard with some things, I've heard. Computer processors are often somewhat like that, apparently.

[pgodkin]

Ok, this is really bizarre.
Cleaned my computer desk and the cables belows it (dusty), moved the lamp that is on my desk carefully onto the floor while cleaning....

Get everything cleaned, switch on lamp, no dice. (fuck you lamp), grab bulb from identical lamb on the other side of the room to see if the bulb went, no dice.

Feel pissed off. Go to turn on other lamp, no dice.
Test it with bulb from the remaining (but different) working lamp, no dice.

So two lamps that are a set (they were here when I moved in), that have never given any trouble, that are on opposite sides of the room - both give up the ghost at the same time.

Consider me utterly flummoxed.

me =

light gasket obv, goin to cost you around three fifty to fix i dare say!

[TommyGunne]

his "rumoured to be dodgy" was from several traders on the betfair forum?

Not sure what this is getting at, but they would defo be the first to suspect, and most likely to know, through having found out the hard way.

You seem to be implying traders on the BF forum are dodgy?

[Macspower]

btw need something new to watch.... any good series out.. I'm up to date with all my current stuff

[CHDad]

SHD, I think that kid you were stalking in Greystones the other day has special powers.

Me?

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[Zod]

Wasn't there also some chip put in IBM printers to make them work at a lower quality? Think they built the exact same high-end and low-end printers, but then put a chip in the low-end printers that stopped them working as well as the high-end ones.

/ could have been Naomi Klein (No Logo) who said that

Naomi Klein getting her facts mixed up? never!


there is a difference in some printers which use less ink (via lesser quality) to aim them at lower-end users, versus the high end users who need higher quality (and printing at a higher DPI) and won't baulk at the quicker need for refills and print heads. Not really a case of "don't work chip".

As for CPU's, they are sold with a certain capacity for "overclocking" (to get better performance) but you do so at your own risk as it validates the warranty as it causes a higher chance of the processor failing.

[ComradeCollie]

On the lightbulb thingy. It's probably the exception that proves the rule, but I have something like this



Bought 3 energy saving lightbulbs for it about 5 years ago. Two of them failed about a year ago (within the space of 2 days) and were replaced. The third one is still working a year later. Really think it's odd that 2 would fail almost simultaneously and the third is doing it's own thing

[Sledgejammer]

Naomi Klein getting her facts mixed up? never!


there is a difference in some printers which use less ink (via lesser quality) to aim them at lower-end users, versus the high end users who need higher quality (and printing at a higher DPI) and won't baulk at the quicker need for refills and print heads. Not really a case of "don't work chip".

As for CPU's, they are sold with a certain capacity for "overclocking" (to get better performance) but you do so at your own risk as it validates the warranty as it causes a higher chance of the processor failing.

I'd heard that alot of CPUs are made in bulk, then some sold cheaper and underclocked and some sold more expensive and overclocked, but they're the same chips from the same mass produced batch just advertised and branded differently. Is there any truth to that at all or is it nonsense?

[ComradeCollie]

New Crystal Swing

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XSkstqN2T0[/ame]

[Keane]

That's quite standard with some things, I've heard. Computer processors are often somewhat like that, apparently.

Every chip that Intel for example makes has all the features of the top end model built into it, they then use fuses and things to turn off certain features in order to sell them as lower end models.

When I first heard this I thought it was shocking bad, but it makes sense from everybody's point of view when you think about it.

[Keane]

I'd heard that alot of CPUs are made in bulk, then some sold cheaper and underclocked and some sold more expensive and overclocked, but they're the same chips from the same mass produced batch just advertised and branded differently. Is there any truth to that at all or is it nonsense?

That's not quite right.

Without getting into it at any great technical level if you imagine a bell curve representing a batch of processors, at one extreme of the curve you'll have chips that will be close to their max potential just running at the spec speeds, at the other end will be chips capable of running a lot faster.

It's mainly due to the fact that when a company creates a spec, they're basing it off worst case scenarios wrt variables like operating temperature and supply voltage, so a huge chunk of the parts in any given batch will be capable of better under most normal running conditions.

The thing is, someone like Intel doesn't really know on a chip by chip basis which ones sit on which part of the bell curve, so if you've been unlucky enough to pick up one of the ones on the wrong side and you try overclocking you're probably going to break it.

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[Keane]

Are you sure that's not highly classified information?!

lol no it's standard practice!

There's not really any other way to do it basically...

[DeadParrot]

btw need something new to watch.... any good series out.. I'm up to date with all my current stuff

no ordinary family
the event
nikita
house
chuck
Justified (just awesome)
Fringe
Blue Bloods
Detriot 187

all decent and worth a watch

[sligoboi]

11 hours until new Black ops maps are out

Pakistan?

[hotspur]

I heard a song on the radio about half an hour ago that blows Friday out of the water in the bad song stakes. Check out this po faced piece of crap from some tuneless moany injun:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX_AhL2SsUs[/ame]

But do look up the word Wendigo.

[DeadParrot]

Are you sure that's not highly classified information?!

not really, it's fairly well known some kind of jiggery pokery goes on.

[Zod]

oldie, but a goodie

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovEDhFfgdOo[/ame]

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[DeadParrot]

awwwwwww

[Keane]

There's not really any other way to do it basically...

This isn't quite right I guess, they could design a bunch of different chips, one with all the features, others with various combinations, but in practice it's much easier to just design and manufacture the full thing and turn bits off to allow you to sell at different price points.

An example plucked from the wiki:

Core Solo
Intel Core Solo[5] (product code 80538) uses the same two-core die as the Core Duo, but features only one active core. This allows Intel to sell dies that have a manufacturing defect in one but not both of the cores.[citation needed] Depending on demand, Intel may also simply disable one of the cores to sell the chip at the Core Solo price—this requires less effort than launching and maintaining a separate line of CPUs that physically only have one core. Intel used the same strategy previously with the 486 CPU in which early 486SX CPUs were in fact manufactured as 486DX CPUs but with the FPU disabled.

[Keane]

all i'm saying is, as soon as read that post my laptop's i5 chip started making strange whirling sounds

Also, bad beat for you, that's just an i7 with a fuse thrown in

[Loopz]

Stoneyloop, this one's for you dude...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC6Ot1MLP0

here is madness's first track a homage to prince buster,
they changed their name from morris and the minors to madness ( thank fuck) because that was their fav song by the prince

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_srIE-YAb8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_srIE-YAb8[/ame]

[Macspower]

no ordinary family
the event
nikita
house
chuck
Justified (just awesome)
Fringe
Blue Bloods
Detriot 187

all decent and worth a watch

the event [x]
nikita
house [x]
chuck [x]
Justified (just awesome)
Fringe [x]
Blue Bloods
Detriot 187

Might try justified next.. thanks

[LuckyLloyd]

Just finished watching Under Siege 2. What an immensely satisfying film!

[Sledgejammer]

So I've decided to move on from my post Wire depression and commit to another TV show, more than looking for suggestions, I'm just wondering, does The Sopranos even remotely compare?

[DeadParrot]

arrgghhhhhh

[Zod]

The thing is, someone like Intel doesn't really know on a chip by chip basis which ones sit on which part of the bell curve,

*cough* Celeron *cough*

[DeadParrot]

oohhhhhhh

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[Charlie Sheen]

So I've decided to move on from my post Wire depression and commit to another TV show, more than looking for suggestions, I'm just wondering, does The Sopranos even remotely compare?

I preferred The Sopranos.

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